Personnel of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, have arrested a 29-year-old man, Emmanuel Okoi, in connection with a robbery and kidnapping incident, Wednesday night, at a pharmacy in the Maitama District of Abuja.
Blueprint gathered that two clients had driven into the premises but while one proceeded into the pharmacy, the other remained by the car waiting when armed hoodlums numbering about six came in a Mazda vehicle and forced him into a Toyota Landcruiser Jeep with Diplomatic Registration Number GD CD 071, and took off with him.
Eye witness account has it that a passerby who attempted to come to his aid was shot in the head and rushed to the hospital but was later confirmed dead at the Maitama District Hospital.
FCT Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Josephine Adeh, in a press statement, Thursday in Abuja, said: “The FCT Police Command today, October 13, 2022, at about 15:30hrs, after an all-night pursuit and an aggressive man-hunt of some armed hoodlums, recovered the vehicle stolen at gun-point in
Maitama and arrested one suspect.
“Consequent upon the above, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Babaji Sunday, has deployed several Tltactical and intelligence apparatus at the Command’s disposal on an aggressive manhunt for the miscreants and the recovery of the stolen vehicle.
“Seven hours later, the painstaking effort of the Command yielded results as the vehicle was recovered at Jabi Magajipi, off Eco Bank Junction Jabi, while one Emmanuel okoi, a 29 years old male resident of Jabi and a suspected member of the criminal syndicate was arrested.
“As part of the investigation, an identification parade was conducted where the victim identified the suspect as one of his six abductors. An investigation has been intensified and unfolding facts will be communicated subsequently.”
According to the statement, Babaji while debriefing the officers charged them not to relent until fleeing members of the criminal syndicate are arrested and an end is brought to their criminal enterprise as well as other crime and criminality in the area and the FCT as a whole.
He also reassured residents of the Command’s unalloyed stance to continually upgrade the security architecture of the Territory to proactively/actively match up and surmount crime in its dynamics.
